Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week long memories in Washington turned back to one chill morning in January, two years ago. That morning at Jersey City Franklin Roosevelt boarded a train to Washington to confer over War debts, a matter which the President-Hoover-thought of some importance. After he had eaten luncheon in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt's advisers gathered around the table. Of the five who were there to counsel him on the responsibilities he was to assume, several were quite obscure. There was a balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford...
Although Dr. Tugwell had come too late to save his friends, he was not too late to win renewed expressions of esteem from the Administration. He himself was named to a place on the new ''operating council" of AAA. A liberal friend of his, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, was appointed Consumers' counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned...
...garden club president instructs fellow-members on the psychological use of flowers in table decoration. One use is "sublimation"-"an Ophelia rose grafted onto President Herbert Hoover...
Tribune and onetime director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. A Dartmouth graduate, Son Russell won the Prix de Rome as a muralist about 20 years ago. His later rebellion against the stiffness of academic tradition is still a driving force behind his constant technical experiments. In the Cairo American Express office seven years ago he met the former Women's Page Editor of the New York Sun, eloped with her within two weeks to Munich. He has spent six months in Bali, lives part of every year in Santa Fe. Of his painted abstractions last week...
...College in Lexington, Va., where he had an offer of $1,500 a year, plus the use of house and garden, plus one-fifth of the revenues to be derived from the tuition fees of $75 per annum for each student. Lee might have anticipated Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover by entering the insurance business, but he refused a $10,000-a-year job as supervisor of agencies of an insurance company. He knew business was not his field, and it was not in his nature to fake...